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New rules in place by the Ivy League for the 2011 football season -
including a reduction in the number of full-contact practices and drills
- were designed to protect student-athletes from subconcussive hits
considered a possible cause of long-term brain injury,

Working collaboratively, a team of physical therapists, strength and
conditioning coaches, head coaches, and athletic trainers designed an
ACL injury prevention program that has reduced the incidence of
non-contact anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries among female
athletes at the University of Pennsylvania, says the school's head
athletic trainer, Eric Laudano, M.H.S., ATC.

It is up to school administrators to ensure that an athletic trainer
(AT) is part of the athletic department staff at the high school level,
says Eric Laudano, M.H.S., ATC, head athletic trainer at the University
of Pennsylvania.

An athlete's psychological readiness is just as important for a return to sports as their physical recovery from injury, says Eric Laudano, head athletic trainer at the University of Pennsylvania, especially for long-term injuries.

There are several different types of stretching in which an athlete can engage to warm up for sports, including dynamic, static, and ballistic stretching, but dynamic stretching is the best, says Eric Laudano, head athletic trainer at the University of Pennsylvania.